Paul Ryan to start running ads for House seat

GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan plans to start airing ads tomorrow for re-election to his House seat in Wisconsin as he also asks voters to put him and Mitt Romney into the White House.

The Associated Press reports the Ryan congressional race ads will continue for two weeks. Also this week, Romney's presidential campaign will start running campaign commercials in Wisconsin, which has emerged as a battleground in the White House race.

Wisconsin law allows Ryan, who is in his seventh term in Congress, to run for the House and vice president at the same time. Democrat Joe Biden did the same thing in 2008 when he ran in Delaware for the U.S. Senate, while he was also Barack Obama's running mate. When Biden won both races, he resigned from the Senate to serve as VP.

Ryan's 1st Congressional District seat in southeastern Wisconsin is a swing district, with Obama carrying it in the 2008 election but George W. Bush winning there in 2004.

Ryan is running against Democrat Rob Zerban, a former Kenosha County supervisor.

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